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...depicts a whole group (i.e. all Chinese men) as looking like this person and...it is based on a racist image of Asian Americans that dates back to the late 1800s and early 1900s," Lee wrote in the message...
Walking past Coady Galgay Florist, "The UnknownArea" of Inman Square gradually appears. Lookinglike it is caught in a time warp, half of InmanSquare has buildings dating from the 1800s andearly 1900s, but new development springing up allover the place also makes the area look extremelymodern...
...Pietraroia limestone beds near Naples, Italy, are celebrated for the exquisite fossils they've yielded up since the early 1800s--gorgeously preserved specimens of prehistoric fish and a few birds. No dinosaurs, though. While the rocks date back some 110 million years, smack in the middle of the terrible lizards' reign, not a single dinosaur bone had ever been found there. As far as amateur paleontologist Giovanni Todesco knew, that dismal record was still intact even after he unearthed a 9-in.-long specimen about a decade ago. The nearly complete skeleton, missing only its tail and the lower part...
Harvard Yard, now one of the most well-known tourist sights in the U.S., was in the 1800s a "private male bastion," according to Secretary of the Faculty John...
...publication of Feliciano's book. Was the looting of French art from Jews and others a terrible aspect of World War II? Indeed. Looting of art has been part of French-German conflict since Napoleon, and it was not any better in the 1940s than it was in the 1800s. But France did its part immediately following the war, and the 2,000 objects that remain in French museums should not be seen as a stain upon France's history, but as a sad testament to the millions of people who lost their lives--as well as their...